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Asked: 2021-11-19 14:30:06 +0800 CST

evince Document Viewer displays at double the actual size

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When I look at a PDF of an A4 paper (or US Letter-sized paper), and set the zoom scale to 100%, the paper on the screen looks twice the actual width (42 cm instead of 21 cm). This happens with all PDF files. On the other hand, if I look at the file at 100% using Adobe Reader on Windows, it displays at the correct size. In both cases, my screen is HD at about 100 dpi. Why is evince wrong? Is there a setting to correct it?

Both my laptop (Ubuntu 20.04) and desktop (Ubuntu 21.10) have the same issue.

By comparison, Google Chrome displays the same PDF files correctly.

On my laptop:

$ evince --version
GNOME Document Viewer 3.36.10

On my desktop:

$ evince --version
GNOME Document Viewer 40.4
gnome

1 Answers

  1. This seems to be the same issue that was reported to the evince developers 2 years ago:

    https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/-/issues/1335

    It has not been fixed yet.

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